Why bother playing video games?

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GamingChartzFTW on 09 March 2009

Onyxmeth said:

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However, there's very little reason why you can't accomplish all three. There are enough hours and days in the week to study, exercise and play games.

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This.

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akuma587 on 09 March 2009

Onyxmeth said:

If you think long and hard, none of those other things are any more productive than videogaming if your goals in life are merely changed. You find excercising and getting good grades as being more productive because your end goals involve being healthy and getting a good job. If the end goals were to be changed to lounging on your couch having fun, then videogames would be far more productive than excercising and getting good grades.

However, there's very little reason why you can't accomplish all three. There are enough hours and days in the week to study, exercise and play games.

This. It all depends on what your priorities are in life. I will say that I myself have found less and less time to play videogames though as I have so much else going on in my life.

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